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rOUR MEDfORD (OREGON) II UNI "Xvsrytxxly la Southtrn Oregon Rami Tfc. Mail Tribuna" Published Daily Except Saturday by MZOrORO PRINTING CO. T-a North fir St. Phone S-SH1 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor KERB GREY. Advertising Manager K. C FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sport Editor OLIVE STARCHEB. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act or March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES, By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10. Daily and Sunday One year til 00 Daily and Sunday Six month 6.50 Dailv and Sunday Threa mos. J0 Sunday Only One vear 3-50 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: ,. Daily and Sunday Ona year I1S.00 Daily and Sunday One month .1-23 Carrier and Dealers 5; per copy. All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City ef Medford Official Paper of Jackson Cennty " United Press Pull Leased Wirt MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU maim " .o.Tt AptnV Advertising "r.ii ?,,,,it, . rv twr WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. Chics to. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seatae, Portland. St. Louis Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL I ASSOCIATION Z7 111 ' NIWIPAMt PUtllSNIIS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the filei of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO June 27, 1945 . , (It was Wednesday) Three new sawmills .under construction in Bellview area near Ashland. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A local lawyer was caught talking to himself on the cthse lawn yes. He denied he was asking him self questions, and then object ing to them. 10 YEARS AGO v June 27. 193S (It was Thursday) Jackson county court relocates Valleyview road near Ashland to connect with Paeifie highway near Jackson Hot Springs. Quotations from California Fruit Growers association, indi cates good prices for Rogue Val ley Fears. SO YEARS AGO June 27, 1925 (It was Saturday) Travel around Crater Lake Rim road to open Sunday; traf fic in park already heavy for sea son. Medford City council opens North Oakdale ave. through to Jackson boulevard. 40 YEARS AGO June 27. 1915 (It was Sunday) Deeds signed transferring Bar num railroad to Bullis interests; line to be electrized soon. J. S. Howard, pioneer road builder of Jackson county praises new Pacific highway over Siskiyous. What's the Answer? (Caa You Get 4 of the 7f ) Cast. 1955. Iditerial Research Rapert 1. American Telephone and Telegraph has more than twice the stockholders of General Mo tors, or GM has more than twice those of A.T. & T., or does each have about the same? 2. U. S. natural gas use in the last 10 years increased slightly or much, or decreased slightly or much, or stayed about the same? 3. Highest salary among U.S. civil service employees is a lit tle under $12,000, $13,000, $15,- 000 or $16,500 a year? 4. About one - third, one - half or two-thirds of the U. S. lima bean crop goes into frozen pack ages? 5. The U.N. charter does or doesn't provide specifically for a member state to quit U. N. voluntarily? 6. Average length of sulphur bottomed whales is around (a) 15, (b) 30, (c) 45, (d) 60 or (e) 75 feet? 7. A placebo is a name card at formal dinners, medical dose with no intended effect, carpen ter's tool, or part of the blood? 1. A. T. at T. has mora than twice as many as GM. 2. In creased much. 3. A little under S15.000. 4. About two-thirds 5. Doesn't. 6. Around 75 feet. 7. Medical dose with no in tended effect. MAY ENTER KOREA Tokyo (U.R) The United Na tions Military Command an nounced today that foreign tour ists and visitors may enter the Republic of Korea after June 30 without U.N.C. approval. TO MAIL TRIBUNE The Annexation Problem One week from tomorrow the voters in a large area called "South Medford" will decide whether or not they wish that area to become a part of the city of Medford. The issue is a controversial one and, as sometimes happens, much of the debate has been emotional, not rational. This is unfortunatesbecause this, is the type of democratic decision, to be made by the people affect ed, which should be undertaken on the basis of facts, not fancies. - ' - THHOSE who object to the annexation proposal do " so on three principal grounds: 1. That it will cost more money in taxes. 2. That the increases in services are not commen surate with the increased cost. 3. That the election, set up as it is for a 3,000-acre area of widely diversified types of land some agri cultural, some industrial, some residential is "ger rymandering" in an attempt to get more highly popu lated sections to overcome objections of less-populous areas and bring the whole district in, willy-nilly. ... I ET'S examine these points. " 1. No one has ever pretended that it would not take more taxes to have city benefits. City services must be paid for. One does not "get something for nothing." 2. Whether increases in services are worth the added cost is. up to the individual to decide. Some people, like G. L. Frasier who wrote about his objec tions to this paper last week, will undoubtedly vote "no." Others, located in areas where the ground is pol luted from cesspool or septic tank overflow; where thpre is a crvinp- need for new streets, street lights, sewers and pure water, will realize that an increase in taxes is a small price to pay for city benefits, and will vote "yes." 3. There is a valid Question about the advisability of attempting annexation of 11 1 1 1 ' 1 i--L i. T wen nave oeen ueuer iu nave sei up uie wctuuu that each of the three Drecincts would come in or stay out on the basis of their own vote, but there are advantages in a package THE planning commission made up 01 citizens wno are not paia ior men work, and who base their decisions on what is good from a long-range viewpoint for the city and the area affected. . ' Aspersions and insinuations about their motives have been entirely without justification. If their hon est judgment differs from the honest judgment of others, that's fine that's democracy in action. But insinuations that they have sinister or questionable motives simply will not stand up. And the preparation of lists of "loaded" and emotionally-charged ques tions doesn't add to clear thinking on the problem. As rn the "tax crab" theorv. which holds that the pitv is an inanimate "monster." that doesn't hold wa ter either. Watch the city council in action some time. It is a representative body, dedicated to service. And if annexation nasses. the new citizens will have a part as voters in the operation of all other levels of government. . THE Mail Tribune supports the basic principle be Viinrl tViic annovotinn mnvpiTipnt.. It fines so because Wlia this area is growing with great rapidity, and shows every sign of continuing this growth. If we are to have orderly development, appropriate regulations are nec essary. Unfettered individual freedom will have to make the historic democratic compromises to main tain a high standard of public welfare. The health of the whole valley is endangered by inadequate sewage in several areas. A , sightly and pleasant city is a city which has, to some extent, been planned. A safe city is one which has adequate and efficient law enforcement and fire protection throughout. 1X7HETHER or not this particular annexation plan is the answer to this problem (which, sooner or later, MUST be solved) is a question to be determined solely by the residents in the annexation area. Those living in the city cannot force them in, as has been claimed. We rather hope they will decide that the present plan is for their best interests. Few, if any, will suffer to any serious extent if the plan passes for although higher property taxes are unpleasant more often than the reverse, increases in property values, and more comfortable and convenient living, more than com pensate. rEFEAT of annexation would be a set-back to ord erly progress of our fast-growing area. But it would be a set-back only; not a stop. We are bound to grow. Let us hope we can do so in an orderly manner, with as little bitterness and re crimination as possible. E.A. Radio Quartet Sets Appearance Tuesday . The Biola Radio Quartet will appear in the Medford Assembly of God Church, 1108 West Main st., Tuesday, June 28, at 8 p.m. The quartet is composed of stu dents from Biola Bible college, Los Angeles, and its affiliated school, Talbot Seminary. Gospel singing . and personal testimony wUl be featured on the program. Included in - the group are Gale Borden, baritone, Carl Woods, second tenor, Don Rhoads, first tenor, George Al len, bass, and Ted Dixon, pianist. The Biola Radio Quartet is Monday. June 27, 1955 so large an area. It might ' A. ' il. .lnnllnn r-n deal also. and the city council are the city as they do now on Indochinese Premier Has Narrow Escape Saigon, Indochina (U.R) Premier Ngo Dinh Diem narrow ly escaped death Sunday when a hand grenade exploded nearby during army maneuvers, govern ment officials disclosed today. Diem was unhurt but the blast at the exercise at the Quantre Training Camp. Two soldiers were wounded by the explosion, one seriously. heard regularly in the Rogue valley over KWIN, on the Bible Institute Hour. The Bethel Baptist church of Medford is sponsoring the ap pearance here. Matter of THE ZWICKY CASE Washington The Department of Defense has now suspended the security clearance of Dr. Fritz Zwicky, P r o f e ssor of Astrophysics at the California I n s t i t ute of Technology. The security of the United States has been t r i umphantly s a f e guarded, by depriv i n g the United Joseph Alsop States of the services of one of the world leaders in the vital fields of as trophysics and rockets propul sion. Thus Dr. Zwicky's suspen sion again raises the question whether the so-called security program is not really an inse curity program. This is not a new question, of course; but it is a much more acute question than most people suppose. To name one other really lurid example, the eager flatfeet came within a hairs breath of lifting the security clearance of the President's per sonal scientific adviser, the great president of Cal Tech, Dr. Lee DuBridge. The decision to . de prive Dr. DuBridge of clearance was in fact tentatively made in the Pentagon some months ago. rpHE charges against Dr. Du- Bridge were the usual insub stantial, unsupported, poison pen letter stuff. But the flatfeet might have had their way, if the Assistant Secretary of Defense in charge of research and de velopment, Donald Quarles, had not grimly warned that every other scientist would automatic ally leave the government serv ice along with Dr. DuBridge. The idiotic harassment of Dr. DuBridge, the shocking injustice done to Dr. J. Robert Oppen heimer, the suspension of Dr. Zwicky", from what the flatfeet like to call a pattern. In the case of Dr. Zwicky, his Swiss citizenship seems to be the main charge against him. In giving notice of the suspension of Dr. Zwicky's clearance, the Defense Department flatfeet in dicated that the case would be instantly re-opened if the astro physicist would just take out his American first papers. Dr. Zwicky, meanwhile, has an ex tremely cogent reason for not requesting American citizenship, which he expressed to this re porter with some vigor by tele phone from the West Coast. - "I would apply for Ameri can citizenship tomorrow," he said, "if you did not now have two classes of citizens. If you are a naturalized citizen, you are a second class citizen. My friend Prof. Herman Weyl, the great mathematician, became an American citizen without study ing the class rules. So his citizen ship was taken f way because he went to Zurich to lecture, and stayed abroad too long. If I am more free as a Swiss than as an American, I stay Swiss." Such, then, is the nature of the deadlock between the Amer ican government and Dr. Zwicky. From" the viewpoint of the national interest, this dead lock is a rather serious matter. A DEADLY, unseen race is now going on between this coun try and the Soviet Union, to get there first with the best guided missiles. In winning this race, and especially in the develop ment of the crucial missiles of intercontinental range, no fields of knowledge are more impor tant than astrophysics and rocket propulsion. And Dr. Zwicky is not only one of the tiny group of world leaders in these abstruse fields; he has also proved his value to the govern ment by important services al ready rendered. His contributions to defense projects began in 1943, when he organized the research depart ment of the Aerojet Corporation, the largest American company exclusively engaged in rocket development and manufacture. Most rocket projects are still classified, so that no results of Dr. Zwicky's work can be point ed to except the jet assisted take off device that was so important to our carrier aviation in the last war. But Aerojet officials state that Dr. Zwicky's contributions have been "very great," and he was formally classified as an "es sential" scientist until his clear ance was suspended. -- BUT, of course, Adm. Lewis L. Strauss established the rule in the Oppenheimer case that neither past services nor present usefulness are to be considered in weighing the "security" of our public servants. Of course, the dangerous old American habit of welcoming men of learning to these shores has been properly abandoned. Of course, Gen. Leslie Groves and the other leaders of the Manhattan Dis trict Project, who used scores of foreign scientists to make the atomic bomb, were nothing but a lot of pinkos who were def initely soft on the great security issue. " To be sure, as Gen. Groves has testified, America would never, have been first with the atomic bomb if Dr. Niels Bohr and all the other foreigners had not joined the project. To be sure, the research and develop ment chiefs of the Defense De Fact By Joseph Alsop partment are now engaged in a rather aesperate exiort to re cruit foreign scientists for work in this country. But practical considerations must be. forgot ten, and America's pToudest tra ditions must naturally be tram pled upon, when the thing at stake is this wonderful new se curity of ours. (Copyright. 1955. New York Herald Tribune Inc.) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS I suppose you recaU Molo tov's seven points to end the cold war cut out atom bombs (of which we have more than Rus sia has), take red China into the UN fold, throw the Formosa Chinese to the Communist wol ves, give up the overseas bases whose possession puts our bomb ers closer to Russia than Rus sia's bombers can be to us, and so on. In San Francisco this morning, our man Dulles replies to Molo tov. He says: "To bring the cold war to an end, seven points are not needed. ONE is sufficient. The ONE I mean is to STOP USING FORCE AGAINST OTHER COUNTRIES AND TO STOP SUPPORTING SUBVERSION." e THAT is to say, if Russia will 1. Mind her own legitimate busines and leave us free to mind ours 2. Quit firing up her stooges to start wars of conquest (red Chi na's war in Korea, for ex ample) 3. Call off her communist par ty wreckers who are trying to overthrow our free government and set up a communist dictator ship in its place The cold war will COME TO AN END and the world will stand at t)ie threshold of a beau tiful and wonderful period of PEACE. PRETTY good, what? In the pinches, this man Dulles has quite a little on the ball. a e fUT let's change the subject and get closer home. In its edition of yesterday, the accurate and well informed Wall Street Journal carries a front-page story from Bogalusa, Louisiana, about the fabulous growth of the pulp and paper products industry in the South It says: "Twenty six of the nation's 51 kraft (pulp and paper) mills are located in the South. Among the biggest of these is Gaylord Container Corporation's Bogalu sa plant, which sprawls over six city blocks and. employs 3300 persons in this town of 19,000. Gaylord's mill uses Southern pine from the 122,000 acre forest that surrounds Bogalusa." 122,000 ' acres of Southern " (quite generally known as lob- -lolly) pine! ' But is looks like a woodlot when compared with the MIL LIONS OF ACRES of jackpine in Southern Oregon and North ern California. e THE Wall Street Journal's A story goes on: Why the Souths meteoric rise? "We had the materials and the markets," says Peter F. Watzek, president of Crossett Co. "The rapid growth of Southern pine lies back of a lot of this pulp and paper expansion in the South," asserts Philip P. Lynch of Brown Paper Mill Company, of Monroe, Louisiana. "It grows into pulpwood in 20 to 40 years. That's about twice as fast as other species in colder climates." . THERE is as yet little EXACT information about jackpine, because ever since the West was first settled it has been regarded as a nuisance tree, worse than useless because it has cluttered ground that might be more profitably used for other pur poses. It is only within the past half dozen years anybody in the West has paid any attention to it. But Competent and well-informed opinion among practical forest ers who have had occasion to watch jackpine closely is that it wUl grow a crop of pulpwood about every two years. rpHE Journal's story continues: - According to Mr. Young, of the Gaylord Container Corps., of Bogalusa, "the quick growing Southern pine also lends itself to the kraft, or so-called un bleached sulphate process of pulping wood, because of its LONG FIBERS. For this reason, it makes a stronger pulp." WELL " The fiber of jackpine is as long as the fiber of the Southern (loblolly) pine. IN its jackpine forests re garded for a century as worth less Southern Oregon has a perpetual source of raw material out of which an important in dustry can be built here. Paste that in your hat. PASTURE AREA Atlanta Of aU of Georgia's domain, about 3,500,000 acres are devoted to pasture land. II & IKIi TAKING witness stand at de portation trial before federal judge, without jury, San Fran cisco labor leader Harry Bridges denies he was Communist when naturalized. (International) Portland Building Jobs Resumed as Agreement Made Portland (U.R) Work on $1,000,000 in public and private projects resumed today as Port land area carpenters returned to work following a week end agreement which ended their 24- day strike. Approved Saturday The agreement, approved by executive committee of both la bor and management Saturday night, calls for the full 10-cent an hour pay increase sought by carpenters to bring their scale to $2.75 an hour. About 1000 of the 4800 carpenters covered by the argeement were out on strike. Federal conciliator Roy Smith said state-wide negotiations also would be resumed. Earlier, the state carpenters' council had settled for a 5Vi-cent an hour pay boost. Struck on June 1 Portland carpenters withdrew from the state talks and called a strike June 1 against the As sociated General Contractors of America and the Portland Home Builders association. In a vote of confidence, Clell Harris secretary of the Portland District Council of Carpenters, was re-elected Saturday in a close race with E. B. Weber of the state council. Russians Sa id Trying To Sabotage Meeting Of Biq 4 at Geneva By CHARLES McCANN United Press Correspondent Soviet Russia is trying to sabotage the United Nations con ference on President Eisenhow er's atoms-for-peace plan. The U.N. meeting is to be held in Geneva, Switzerland, August 8 to August 20. Sixty na tions are to attend. Now it has been announced that the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union has invited sci entists of 41 countries to attend a special five-day meeting on nuclear energy in Moscow, start ing July 1. There can be no doubt, of course, that the meeting was arranged by the Soviet govern ment. Nor can there be any doubt that its aim is to take the edge off the Geneva Confer ence. A Fire-Day Treat Scientists who attend the Mos cow meeting are sure to be treat ed to five days of speeches in tended to show that Russia leads the world in plans to utilize nuclear energy for peaceful pur- j poses. Most likely the Soviet govern ment will take the opportunity to make some big announcement of its atoms-for-peace plans. It may even elect to unveil some of its developments in that field. This is indicated especially as it appears that the Moscow meet ing was decided upon rather sud- Klamath Indians Turn Down Report Klamath Falls (U.R) The tribal council of the Klamath In dian tribe has refused to accept reports of an advisory commit tee on health services. The committee report had rec ommended dissolution of the welfare committee which has the power to proclaim Indians as competent or incompetent. It also recommended setting aside $39,000 annuaUy to maintain the clinic on the reservation and employ doctors and nurses. Health committee leaders Wade Crawford and Lawrence Witt left the council haU after the refusal and the Indian exec utive committee heard a second health report advising continu ation of the investigation of health services. ' As of July 1, the U. S. Pub lic Health service wiU take over the health services now run by the Bureau of Indian Affairir . Security Setup Due For Trouble; Survey May Be Ordered Soon By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) The Eisenhower administration's em ployee loyalty or internal secur ity setup is in for some bad trouble. . . - . The only matter in real doubt today is whether President Eis enhower will wait for Congress to order a survey, or order it himself. A survey resolution sponsored by Democrats but with substantial Republican sup port was on the Senate calendar for today and expected to pass. A similar resolution is coming along in the House. They would require the crea tion of a bipartisan survey com mission to which Mr. Eisenhow er, Vice-President Richard M. Nixon and Speaker Sam Ray burn (D-Tex.), each would name two Republicans and two Dem ocrats. The President has been advis ed that a commission inquiry is assured one way or another. There is some feeling within the administration that it would be good politics for Mr. Eisen hower to bring it about instead of waiting for Congress. Winning Campaign Issue Democrats have been count ing heavily on the administra tion's internal security policy as a winning campaign issue in next year's presidential election. There has been a considerable newspaper and radio campaign against the security program and some of the persons connected with it. The prime individual target has been Scott McLeod, State department security chief. The administration doubtless would ,want to avoid public hearings on so controversial an issue during a campaign year. One way to assure that the in vestigation would be secret until a report was published would be for the President to establish the commission and fix the ground rules. Loyalty investigations and fir ings came under bruising Dem ocratic attack last winter. Ag ricultural Secretary Ezra Ben son was badly mauled in the loyalty dispute involving Wolf Ledejinsky, a veteran govern ment agricultural expert who was discharged on security denly. Originally, the Russians ' had invited Japan, . India, Burma, Communist China and the , So viet satelliae countries to the conference. Last Tuesday, the Moscow Radio said that it had bejen de cided "a tew days ago to invite delegates from the other coun tries. U.S. and Dutch Decline The Russian invitations were sent to academies of science in the countries concerned, not to governments. The short notice given is likely to keep a number of scien tists from attending the Moscow meeting. The American Acad emy of Sciences and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters already have declined to attend. Both these societies said they were too busy preparing for the Geneva meeting. Nevertheless, Russia is pretty sure to get some propaganda value out of the Moscow confer ence. Despite Russian propaganda. there is every reason to believe that the United States leads the .world in plans to utilize nuclear energy for peaceful as well as warlike purposes. Since 1908 PERL Mortuary Phone FINER FUNERAL I SERVICES erounds when his office was transferred from the State de partment to Benson's. . ; Democrats Demand Reform Democrats demanded reform to obtain uniform standards so that an employee satisfactory to one department would be equal ly satisfactory to another. It was proposed, also, that a single agency be established to deter mine security matters instead or making each department respon sible for Its own. The Ladejinsky case caught fire when Benson's executive as sistant, Milan Smith, made pub lic a letter written by George N. Vitt of the "American Ex porter." endorsing the ouster and referring to Russian Jews. Lade- insky is a itussian-born Jew. yitt s letter touched off charg es . of anti-Semitism which would be dynamite in a cam paign year if thev could be widely publicized and sustained. Benson denied the anti-Semitism arid deplored the letter, but the issue had been made. - Benson Backs Down a Bit But 'Benson also urged Mr. Eisenhower at that time to set up a presidential board of in quiry to review the whole fed eral employe security program. He refused to budge on his judgment against Ladeiinskv. who later got a $11,800 job with the Foreign Operations adminis tration. Benson urged, however. that there be searching investi gation of the security system which he felt permitted and al most encouraged honest men to differ, as did he and State Sec retary John Foster Dulles in the Ladejinsky case. Last week Benson backed down a bit, conceding he had been too severe on Ladejinsky. Having rejected Benson's in quiry suggestion last winter, Mr. Eisenhower now must make a substantial political ; decision: Whether to order the investiga tion himself or let Congress dp it. Inquiry assuredly would ob tain some security changes and make some Democratic cam paign issues. MINEVITCH DIES Paris (U.R) Borrah Mine vitch, whose "Harmonica Ras cals" delighted American audi ences in the 1930s, died here yes terday in the American Hospital of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 52. New York An average American-uses 8.1 ordinary pencils during a calendar year. Held Dead Babe GEO. N. TAYLOR There in the kitchen, all that day and night, she held her dead babe. Neither its father, the un dertaker or the doctor could persuade her to give it up. T iKe word spread and a block or so away, a moth er who had lost her own boy a few weeks before, slipped in. She sat down be side the bereaved mother with out offering to take the dead babe. Instead she told of how she had lost her own boy few weeks before. With never a word, the mother handed her dead babe over to this mother who had also suffered. And what did Christ suffer when His death blotted out your sins? He suffered the woe of eternal1 separation from God. Hear Him cry "My God, My God why have you forsaker Me?" He knows all about separa tion. Mt. 27:46. ' . This Message sponsored by a Columbia River Dairyman. Adv. 2 - 6675 in every price range r- JL
